Quotes About Choice

For man is man and master of his fate.

Time is just 'one damn thing after another ', Margaret Atwood says. That sounds like conventional narrative plot. And at the end of our allotted time, we'll end up in one of those, a conventional plot I mean, unless we stipulate otherwise in our wills.

As he said it Mark, belted in in the back seat, had watched the holy water glint inside the plastic bubble next to the Virgin Mary and had wondered if the holy water was selective too, and if that's what God was these days, and whether everybody now simply had a private god who sanctioned his or her own choices

Acum doreÈ™ti s? vorbeÈ™ti cu una din fetele sau b?ieÈ›ii sau ce-or fi care au scris mesajele, sau cu unul din cei È™apte pitici? Pe care l-ai dori? Îl avem pe Mutulic?, Hapciu', Moroc?nosu', RuÈ™inosu', Somnorosu', N?sosu' È™i înc? unul al c?rui nume va trebui s?-l caut pentru dumneata.

Then I wondered why on earth would anyone ever stand in the world as if standing in the cornucopic middle of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon but inside a tiny white-painted rectangle about the size of a single space in a car park, refusing to come out of it, and all around her or him the whole world, beautiful, various, waiting?

So you were advised to go to Snappy Snaps already but you chose not to go, the woman says.

Sometimes I like to compare people who don't like women to vegetarians." "Interesting analogy, and I do like the way your mind works, so lay it on me." He opened the door and waved her in. "If God had meant for people to be vegetarians, a good steak wouldn't taste so divine. Following that line of thinking, neither would a woman.

Life is yours... Claim it...!

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

I could have stayed out of this one; I didn't.

Okay, I have to flee the storm again. Or I could stay.

I can't help but be both of you. I wanted to be able to take a side and will never again.

I know there are other things to do, and we chose this. We had to.

Do I need him? Do I really have to have this life?

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

there are always four choices to every decision: the wise choice, the foolish choice, the safe choice and the choice that someone else makes for you.

When you've chosen the right path for yourself, you usually know it immediately. The choice just sits right in your spirit. You're not second-guessing your decision or thinking about turning back. You realize there are challenges ahead, but you're not looking over your shoulder, wishing you'd gone left instead of right at the last fork in the road.

An aha moment is not a happy ending—it's an open doorway, one you have to choose to walk through.

When you've chosen the right path for yourself, you usually know it immediately. The choice just sits right in your spirit. You're not second-guessing your decision or thinking about turning back. You realize there are challenges ahead, but you're not looking over your shoulder, wishing you'd gone left instead of right at the last fork in the road.

longed for solitude, for space and breathing room without the thought of how someone else might be impacted. Traveling with others comes with a daily series of negotiations: Is the room temperature okay? What sites should we visit? What time should we have dinner? Can I sit quietly and read while you go out shopping? On and on. By default, I cater. And rather than feeling the need to accommodate, I wanted the beautiful freedom to choose, to please only myself.

don't believe in the word slave because no one chooses to be owned by someone; an enslaved person is a human being whose freedom has been stolen.

A compulsion to get married is not the same as a desire to partner.

I would rather die than stay there." "Well, you might die.

Life is hard, no? And full of sorrow. The Pilani dance in defiance of death and grief and hardship. They choose to burn before the darkness, rather than to gutter out like a dim flame.